Last year, about this time, a bunch of us sat down in a studio to give a full day of tutorials and discussion on "Building Web Apps with ASP.NET." All those videos are online and have lots of good content like:

We headed over to the Microsoft Virtual Academy Studios again just this last week for another full day of discussion, training, as well as a glimpse into the possible future of .NET. Between these two days of videos you'll get a real sense of what's possible and real advice on how to build your next web application.

Today we've got 7 all-new segments for you, each recorded live at the MS Studios.

These videos are featuring folks like Scott Hunter, Levi Broderick, Rowan Miller, Pranav Rastogi, Mads Kristensen, and Louis DeJardin. No marketing folks, just actual developers that work on ASP.NET every day.

2: Upgrading Applications - Get a deep dive on how to upgrade your older applications to ASP.NET 4.5 and later.

3: ASP.NET Identity - Explore the new ASP.NET Identity system. Learn how to migrate your existing membership data to the new Identity system and how to integrate with other membership systems.

4: Web Essentials and the Client Side - Discover how to build modern client-side applications, more simply and quickly, with a host of new features, tips, and tricks in Web Essentials for Visual Studio.

5: Entity Framework - Have you been using Entity Framework for data access in your web app? In this advanced demo-heavy session, learn the latest features of Entity Framework 6 and get sneak previews of what's coming in version 6.1.

6: The "Katana" Project - Hear the latest on "Project Katana," the Microsoft implementation of Open Web Interface for .NET. It's a glimpse of the future for cloud-optimizing your ASP.NET applications.

7: ASP.NET "Project Helios" - Discover "Project Helios," a prototype representing the re-thinking of the core of ASP.NET. Take a look at the future of web development, with a modular, lightweight OWIN host that runs on Internet Information Services (IIS).

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About Scott

Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

i send out this link to my colleagues the moment i saw it. the ensuing discussion was on how well you do the things you do, the quality of your content, the way you manage your time. You are an inspiration.

Santanu Sen

Friday, February 07, 2014 5:15:38 PM UTC

Awesome! Cannot wait for this release. I might actually use Azure. Bootstrap FTW

Jarrod H

Friday, February 07, 2014 6:42:21 PM UTC

Scott, what are those workstations you guys are using?

Brian W

Friday, February 07, 2014 8:40:33 PM UTC

Brian W - Those are 27" touchscreen Planar monitors.

Kristijan - Ya, and I promise I'm not a 'sick person'...I'm usually quite well, just bad luck this year!

Nice video's ! (as the Azure Fridays, brilliant) . One question though, is it really that the new ASP.NET Identity system has a depency on EF ? Breaking separation of concerns?

Hope you can help!

Thanks.

Edward

Tuesday, February 11, 2014 6:26:14 PM UTC

I saw in Stuart Leeks blog that the azure tables asp.net identity implementation isn't for production, does Microsoft have plans to create an azure tables implementation to be used in production?

Luiz Bicalho

Tuesday, February 11, 2014 7:30:57 PM UTC

ASP.NET Identity system's core does not have a dependency on Entity Framework. You can build upon ASP.NET Identity and use your favorite persistence store. Following article has more information http://www.asp.net/identity/overview/extensibility/overview-of-custom-storage-providers-for-aspnet-identity which points to implementations of Identity on RavenDb, MongoDb etc.So there is separation of concerns.There is a EF specific implementation to use Sql Server as a storage mechanism.

pranav

Friday, February 14, 2014 8:02:57 PM UTC

Great post! I recently passed the 70-486 exam and realized that as of next month the exam will be targeting MVC 5. This content has helped a great deal in really wrapping my head around ASP.NET Identity and has me almost disappointed to not have waited :)

At the end of last video "Helios", you promised that the next day will be an IIS day

Is is day is recorded or I did not hear it well

I was expecting a full day of deep info on IIS 8

Yousry

Sunday, February 16, 2014 1:11:59 PM UTC

Hi Scott, Great presentation!Could you please give me a presentation for themes and switch between themes in MVC?Like in "lightSwitch", is there any templates model (i.e. CustomerList/CustomerDetails) while creating the controller?Sharaf (MVC & Winform Dev)

Sharaf

Tuesday, February 18, 2014 8:46:28 AM UTC

What does anybody know about this? I don't think there's a lot more to the concept

I seriously love your site.. Great colors & theme.Did you make this web site yourself? Please reply back as I'm trying to create my very own website and want to learn where you got this from or just what the theme is named.Kudos!

Good day! I know this is kind of off topic but I was wondering if you knew where I could find a captcha plugin for my comment form? I'm using the same blog platform as yours and I'm having problems finding one? Thanks a lot!